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From: pwp@shamash.cdc.com ( HOUFAC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Guidelines for use of color in User Interfaces
Summary: Two book references
Keywords: Color, User Interfaces
Message-ID: <14465@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:41:04 GMT
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Reply-To: pwp@shamash.UUCP (Pete Poorman)
Organization: Control Data Corp., Houston, Texas
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Someone asked here recently about guidelines for the use of color.  (Can't
find the article...)

Other than the skimpy information in Apple's Desktop Interface book, I've
found two other references:

  * "Designing the User Interface, Strategies for Effective Human-Computer
    Interaction", Ben Shneiderman, Addison-Wesley, 1987.

  * "Using Computer Color Effectively", Wanda Smith, Prentice-Hall, 1989.

I own the Shneiderman book.  The information on color in it is pretty
skimpy, too.

I've never seen the Smith book.  (Although I intended to look for it.)
I found it as a reference in the bibliography of "X Window Systems Programming
and Applications with Xt", Douglas A. Young, Prentice-Hall, 1989.

--Pete
  pwp@shamash.cdc.com